BARNES HOMES YORKSHIRE LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
03763509 · ltd · incorporated 1999-04-30
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Jul 2025
Net worth
£91.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-trading company
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: dormant / non-trading with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 58). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -94% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 1 with DOB)
75
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £91,681
Cash draining
Cash down 94% YoY
Cash YoY
-94%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1k
↓ 94% YoY
Net Worth
£92k
↑ 34% YoY
Current Assets
£381k
↓ 70% YoY
Current Liabilities
£0£256k£513k£769k£1.0m£1.3mJul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Total assets£91.7k£68.3k
Current assets£380.8k£1.28M
Cash£1.0k£16.1k
Debtors£14.5k£4.2k
Net assets£91.7k£68.3k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • 1 confirmation-statement
  • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 confirmation-statement
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-05-10
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2023-04-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-07-26
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  7. 2022-07-13
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    change-of-name-notice
    change-of-name · CONNOT
  8. 2022-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-02-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-04-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-04-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-06-09
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2016-04-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 1999-05-01
    DOLMAN, Joyce appointed
    secretary
  17. 1999-05-01
    BARNES, Carl Nicholas appointed
    director
  18. 1999-04-30
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As BARNES HOMES YORKSHIRE LIMITED
  19. 1999-04-30
    LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  20. 1999-04-30
    LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1999-04-30
    LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  22. 1999-04-30
    LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BARNES" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

85/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Carl Nicholas Barnes
Individual · British · DOB 10/1968 · age 58
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control30/04/2017

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-04-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

Victoria Springs
Wakefield Road
Liversedge
West Yorkshire
WF15 6BU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-23
Last: 2026-05-09

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

DOLMAN, Joyce
secretary · appointed 1999-05-01
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Active
BARNES, Carl Nicholas
director · ~58y · appointed 1999-05-01
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Active
LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-04-30 · resigned 1999-04-30
Resigned
LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-04-30 · resigned 1999-04-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-10
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-06
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2022-07-26
change-of-name-notice
change-of-name · CONNOT
2022-07-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-04-29